Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a fifty-year-old male who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, book, map, chart, and graph 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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Dundee University insolvency 'a real possibility'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0520y092po?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
**Plymouth vs Jamestown: The Straight Tree Of God’s Blessing Liberty Vs The Crooked Tree Of God’s Curse Slavery: 1888 Historical Geography**
A historical geography of the United States in map form from 1888.
https://brilliantmaps.com/1888-historical-geography/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartography #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
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A Columbia Journalism Review study found that AI search engines frequently cite incorrect sources, with an average error rate of over 60%.
Paid versions actually performed worse than free versions.
In the meantime, countless people place their trust in the confident way they present the answers, of what is, most of times, complete nonsense.
**A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans**
_“Using cobraa, we present evidence for an extended period of structure in the history of all modern humans, in which two ancestral populations that diverged ~1.5 million years ago came together in an admixture event ~300 thousand years ago, in a ratio of ~80:20%.”_
Cousins, T., Scally, A. & Durbin, R. A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans. Nat Genet (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02117-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Academia #Academics @science
**Law Librarian Who Chases Words Shares Some in Parting**
_“What sets his books apart is his research. Through his pioneering use of online databases of historical books and newspapers, Shapiro has been able to find the rightful source of quotes that had long been misattributed.”_
https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/law-librarian-who-chases-words-shares-some-parting
**Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii**
_“These narratives can be seen to form two sides to the same coin, as Pompeii’s prosperity was created in large part thanks to slave labour. The connection is supported by constructing a probabilistic model, which suggests some 6 million sesterces (HS) flowed every year to Pompeii’s masters through their exploitation of slaves. Slave owning probably formed the largest single income source for the urban economy.”_
Seth Bernard, Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf006, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf006
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #Roman #Pompeii #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons
**15 Nonfiction Books for Fiction Readers**
To Readers It May Concern
#Video length: forty-nine minutes and twenty-three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYT_J-nA89M
#Reading #Readers #Nonfiction #Fiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Global trade hits record $33 trillion in 2024, driven by services and developing economies**
UN Trade And Development (UNCTAD)
_“In 2024, developing economies outpaced developed nations, with imports and exports rising 4% for the year and 2% in the fourth quarter, driven mainly by East and South Asia. South-South trade expanded 5% annually and 4% in the last quarter.”_
Do the quarter who think that have any understanding of #narcissism?
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Socioemotional and cognitive risk and promotive factors: The role of anxiety on reading comprehension https://osf.io/rabj3
**How Reading Makes You Kinder: The Power of Books to Build Empathy**
Ollie Walter
_“Studies have found that reading for pleasure enhances empathy, understanding of the self, and the ability to understand one’s own and others’ identities1. It challenges our assumptions and expands our world. A book from a different time or place, written from a perspective unlike our own, can shift how we see things.”_
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@bibliolater It's #writing advice. In the form of a video?
**Most academic writing advice is rubbish**
James Hayton PhD
#Video length: nine minutes and twenty seconds.
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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert
**‘Danish Viking blood is boiling.’ Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too**
_“Trump’s policies have “brought the Danish Viking blood boiling,” said Jens Olsen, an electrician and carpenter. He is now considering replacing $10,000 worth of U.S.-made DeWalt power tools even though it will cost him a lot.”_
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-europe-france-boycott-usa-trump-6e4b568ef4ae5705ac200a3986a8ebf6
#News #Denmark #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Economics #Business #Trade #Politics #USPol #Trump #DonaldTrump
**Map Of Africa in 1880: 5 Years Before the Scramble**
https://brilliantmaps.com/map-of-africa-in-1880/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Maps #Cartography #Africa #Colonisation #Colonization #Europe #Empire #Imperialism
**Which countries have contributed the most to historical CO₂ emissions?**
Hannah Ritchie
_“The chart shows the ten countries with the largest share of the world’s historical emissions, based on cumulative emissions from fossil fuels and industry since 1750.”_
#Data #DataViz #Climate #ClimateChange #GreenHouseGases #CO2 #FossilFuels @climatechange
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"Oopsie" - the word that means the United States has now tipped into a constitutional crisis
The United States federal government disregards a courts order and jokes about it on social media
By me
Substack:
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/oopsie-the-word-that-means-the-united
Personal blog:
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/03/oopsie-the-word-that-means-the-united-states-has-now-tipped-into-a-constitutional-crisis/
**Why the Supreme Court Might Grant Trump More Power. WSJ**
WSJ explains the “unitary executive theory” and why the Supreme Court may allow Trump to expand the reach and scope of executive power.
#Video length: seven minutes and one second.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebdz4DIdiPM
#WSJ #Trump #SCOTUS #Law #Constitution #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
Not a bot, just a fifty-year-old male who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, book, map, chart, and graph 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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