Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
**“We Lost Centuries”: How Monks Erased Archimedes’ Work and Delayed Science by Hundreds of Years**
"_Accidentally erased by monks and rediscovered through cutting-edge tech, this ancient text could have changed the course of history._"
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**DNA tests: Who is getting rich with the data from our genes?**
"_50 million people worldwide have already had their genes tested, providing private providers with valuable data. The data sets are already being used and monetized by pharmaceutical companies. Critics fear that insurance companies or banks will also access the genetic data of potential customers in the future._"
#Video length: fifty-one minutes and fifty-five seconds.
**Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration**
"_In summary, in the current political climate, as invasion discourses about migrants are indeed a global trend from Europe and the US to South Africa, India or Hong Kong, drawing parallels between biological invasion and human migration risks facilitating the misappropriation of invasion science research by political ideologies, potentially criminalising migrant communities and legitimising exclusionary measures of migrants._"
Barbulescu, R. et al. (2025) ‘Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(13), pp. 2496–2501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2527906.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Biology #Race #Migration #Migrants #Culture #AcademicChatter #Academia @science @academicchatter
🚽 **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
🧬 **Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs**
"_Our data demonstrate large-scale population movement from Eastern Europe during the sixth to eighth centuries, replacing more than 80% of the local gene pool in Eastern Germany, Poland and Croatia. Yet, we also show substantial regional heterogeneity as well as a lack of sex-biased admixture, indicating varying degrees of cultural assimilation of the autochthonous populations._"
Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Academia @archaeodons @science
**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
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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