Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
@skirwingle.bsky.social Looks AI generated.
🇨🇦 📸 **Toronto Skyline At Night**
#Image #Photo #Photography #Skyline #Toronto #Canada
#Image attribution: TheWxResearcher, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Skyline_at_night_2024-08-23.jpg.
@tg9541 @anulahtinen It is interesting that you mention this today as I have been thinking recently about buying a book on Finnish history; unfortunately, I decided against it as I already have a long list of material waiting to be read. Is there any academic book written in English that you can recommend?
💧 **The vilest of all beverages**
"_Historian Katherine Harvey explores the sometimes strange beliefs medieval people had about water, and how they informed their methods for staying healthy._"
**“Don’t Hold Back”: Swearing Improves Strength Through State Disinhibition**
"_These findings suggest that swearing promotes psychological states conducive to maximizing effort and overcoming internal constraints._"
Stephens, R., Dowber, H., Richardson, C., & Washmuth, N. B. (2025). “Don't hold back”: Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition.American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001650.
🖥️ **Our new report: AI code creates 1.7x more problems**
"_These include business logic mistakes, incorrect dependencies, flawed control flow, and misconfigurations. Logic errors are among the most expensive to fix and most likely to cause downstream incidents._"
🔗 https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/state-of-ai-vs-human-code-generation-report.
🎥 **The Simplest Unsolved Ancient Problem**
"_Ancient Greek mathematicians wrestled for centuries with a seemingly pointless problem that led them to rich mathematical discoveries._"
🇺🇸 **Trillion-Dollar Interest Payments Are the New Norm**
"_As the national debt continues to climb toward record levels – totaling 100% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 – interest on the national debt has also risen significantly. Just five years ago, in FY 2020, net interest totaled $345 billion; in FY 2025, it totaled $970 billion – nearly three times as large._"
🔗 https://www.crfb.org/blogs/trillion-dollar-interest-payments-are-new-norm.
📚 **Are we falling out of love with nonfiction?**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/17/are-we-falling-out-of-love-with-nonfiction.
**Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health**
"_ A 1-week social media detox intervention significantly reduced symptoms of anxiety by 16.1%, depression by 24.8%, and insomnia by 14.5%._"
Calvert E, Cipriani M, Dwyer B, et al. Social Media Detox and Youth Mental Health. JAMA Netw Open. 2025;8(11):e2545245. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.45245.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #SocialMedia #Health #MentalHealth #Medicine #Academia #Research
🖥️ **Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education**
"_Learning is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be undertaken. There are students who feel that they are being robbed of an educational experience, because AI has fundamentally shifted the culture of education._"
🔗 https://www.publicbooks.org/four-frictions-or-how-to-resist-ai-in-education/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning
📚 **The best of 2025**
"_The books that everyone was talking about this year_"
🇺🇸 **America’s $38 trillion national debt ‘exacerbates generational imbalances’ with Gen Z and millennials paying the price, warns think tank**
🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/12/16/us-national-debt-generationa-imbalances-research-think-tank/.
📚 **The Complete English Literature Reading List**
🔗 https://adamgagewalker.substack.com/p/the-complete-english-literature-reading.
**How to read a poem**
"_Ideally over a lifetime, says New Yorker’s Kevin Young_"
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/how-to-read-a-poem/.
🎥 **Modern Myths about the Age of Homer**
"_Archaeologist Bryan Burns surveys ancient finds from Troy and Mycenae and their connection to Homeric epics, addressing common misconceptions about the Late Bronze Age in scholarship and popular culture._"
🇨🇦 🇬🇧 **Linguistic experts urge Carney government to stop using British spellings**
"_Advocates say government should utilize (not 'utilise') Canadian English in official documents_"
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carney-criticized-for-british-spelling-9.7015702.
#Linguistics #English #Language #Spelling #Canada #Britain #UK #UnitedKingdom
**Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century**
"_Here, using three global glacier models, we project a sharp rise in the number of glaciers disappearing worldwide, peaking between 2041 and 2055 with up to ~4,000 glaciers vanishing annually._"
Van Tricht, L., Zekollari, H., Huss, M. et al. Peak glacier extinction in the mid-twenty-first century. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02513-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Environment #Science #Climate #ClimateChange #Glaciers #Academia
🇮🇹 **Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy**
"_The community shows closer genetic affinity to Early Bronze Age Sicilians than to contemporaneous populations from the Italian peninsula. However, unlike contemporary Sicilian individuals, they lack eastern genetic influences, suggesting distinct ancestral trajectories and interaction networks among Bronze Age populations._"
Fontani, F., Larocca, F., Cilli, E. et al. Archaeogenetics reconstructs demography and extreme parental consanguinity in a Bronze Age community from Southern Italy. Commun Biol 8, 1766 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09194-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Archaeology #Demography #Science #Biology #Consanguinity #Genetics #History #BronzeAge #Italy #Academia
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