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**Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic**
"_This study provides the first genomic evidence of Y. pestis in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First Pandemic, linking archaeological findings with pathogen genomics near the origin point of the Plague of Justinian._"
Adapa, S.R.; Hendrix, K.; Upadhyay, A.; Dutta, S.; Vianello, A.; O’Corry-Crowe, G.; Monroy, J.; Ferrer, T.; Remily-Wood, E.; Ferreira, G.C.; et al. Genetic Evidence of Yersinia pestis from the First Pandemic. Genes 2025, 16, 926. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes16080926.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genomics #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #History #Pandemic #Plague #Academia @archaeodons @science
🇵🇹 🧬 **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
🇬🇧 💀 **How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists**
"_In research for my forthcoming book on skull collections, I’ve found that Cambridge’s cranial register includes a skull sent from a former student stationed in India. He had plucked it from a cremation site in Bombay despite the outrage of gathered mourners. Brazen grave-robbing and colonial violence were central to the international network that furnished British universities’ skull rooms._"
#History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Phrenology #Universities #ScientificRacism #Racism #Medicine #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons @science
🇺🇸 📚 **The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey**
"_We found marked declines in the proportion of individuals reading for pleasure daily in the US, with decreases of 3% per year (prevalence ratio = 0.97, 95% confidence interval = 0.97, 0.98, p < 0.001)._"
Bone et al., The decline in reading for pleasure over 20 years of the American Time Use Survey, iScience (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113288.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Academia @science @bookstodon
**What's the "Geometry" of Colours?**
#Video length: nineteen minutes and thirty-four seconds.
🏴 **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
💧 **What Does It Mean To Be Thirsty?**
"_The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst._"
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-thirsty-20250811/.
"_The results indicate a dominant contribution of western European silver, pointing to the fate of loot seized by the Vikings during their raids on the Continent in the ninth century. Nonetheless, Islamic silver is also present in several large ingots: silver from the east—the product of long-distance trade networks connecting Scandinavia with the Islamic Caliphate—permeated Viking wealth sources even in the western part of the Viking overseas settlement and should be seen as a significant driver of the Viking phenomenon._"
Kershaw, J., S. Merkel, A. Woods, J. Evans, V. Pashley, and S. Chenery. 2025. “ The Provenance of Silver in the Viking-Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire.” Archaeometry 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70031.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #History #Vikings #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
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"_Our results reveal a persisting local gene pool that, during the Middle-Late BA, absorbed additional ancestry from Anatolia and the neighboring Eurasian Steppe. In subsequent periods, we document population growth and increasing genetic diversity, supported by a high rate of individual ancestry outliers, particularly in urban centers of eastern Georgia._"
Skourtanioti et al., The genetic history of the Southern Caucasus from the Bronze Age to the Early Middle Ages: 5,000 years of genetic continuity despite high mobility, Cell (2025), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.07.013.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Genomics #Archaeogenetics #History #Migration #Caucasus #BronzeAge #MiddleAges #Academia #Academics @science
**Syphilis: Did Christopher Columbus bring the STD to Europe?**
"_The sexually transmitted disease originated in the Americas 8,000 years ago. But there's evidence that 15th-century colonialists spread Syphilis worldwide._"
🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/syphilis-did-christopher-columbus-bring-the-std-to-europe/a-71096335.
#History #Histodons #Science #Syphilis #STD #ChristopherColumbus @histodons @science
**A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530–510 BCE**
"_Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs._"
Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, and James S. O. McCullagh Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04888
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Chemistry #Honey #Academia @science
🎙️ **Summer picks: Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?**
**Lying increases trust in science**
Hyde, B.V. Lying increases trust in science. Theor Soc (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09635-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Ethics #Science #Experts #Trust #Misinformation #Lying #Society #Academia @science
🧬 **Genetic history of Scythia**
"_Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin with major European Bronze Age ancestral components, and genetic traces of migration and invasions._"
Tatiana V. Andreeva et al., Genetic history of Scythia. Sci. Adv.11, eads8179 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #History #Genetics #DNA #Scythians #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academics @science
🇫🇮 **Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland**
"_Using ancient genomic data, contemporary Finnish Biobank data, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analyses, we identified strong regional continuity between the medieval and modern Finnish populations, and evidence for mobility within Finland and between Finland and Scandinavia._"
Nordfors, U., Peltola, S., O’Sullivan, R.J., Valtueña, A.A., Lamnidis, T.C., Majander, K., Traverso, L., Krause, J., Salmela, E., Onkamo, P., Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland, iScience (2025), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113086.
#Ancient #DNA #Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Science #Medieval #Finland #Scandinavia @science @archaeodons@a.gup.pe
📖 **Galileo’s Lost Star: Rare Book Breaks $1.5M at Auction**
"_Galileo’s rare first book on the 1604 supernova sold for $1.5 million at Christie’s, a stellar result for the scientist who changed how we see the heavens._"
🔗 https://www.antiquetrader.com/galileos-lost-star-rare-book-breaks-1-5m-at-auction.
#History #Science #HistSci #Book #Bookstodon @science@a.gup.pe @bookstodon
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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