Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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🇳🇴 **A tsunami hit southwestern Norway 5,400 years ago**
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #StoneAge #Tsunami #Norway @archaeodons
🇪🇺 **Interactive Demography of Europe: 2025 edition out now**
“The publication, which contains dynamic visualisations and short texts, is divided into 4 sections: population structure, population change, population diversity and marital status._”
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/wdn-20250520-1.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Demography
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Research may be increasingly incremental—but studies making lasting paradigm shifts are on the rise
https://www.science.org/content/article/research-may-be-increasingly-incremental-studies-making-lasting-paradigm-shifts-are?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News from Science @news-from-science-SciMag
🇺🇸 **2024 NAEP Reading Scores Decline, Adding to a Decade of Declines**
“_Average reading scores declined in 2024 for students in 4th grade and 8th grade by 2 points nationally, compared to 2022._”
🔗 https://www.nagb.gov/naep/reading.html.
#Data #DataViz #Reading #Literacy #Education #Learning #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research**
“_Our results indicate a strong bias in many widely used LLMs towards overgeneralizing scientific conclusions, posing a significant risk of large-scale misinterpretations of research findings._”
Peters Uwe and Chin-Yee Benjamin. 2025 Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research. R. Soc. Open Sci.12: 241776. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241776.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Science #Bias @ai @science
💻 **I'm a college professor. My advice to young people who feel hooked on tech**
“_The process of writing — not the final product — is what sharpens our logical reasoning and self-expression. For students who don’t use AI in smart ways, the result is essays that are all product, no process — and no process means no real learning._”
🔗 https://mashable.com/article/a-professors-advice-to-young-people-who-feel-hooked-on-tech.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning @ai
**Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets**
“_Here we synthesise multiple lines of evidence to show that +1.5 °C is too high and that even current climate forcing (+1.2 °C), if sustained, is likely to generate several metres of sea-level rise over the coming centuries, causing extensive loss and damage to coastal populations and challenging the implementation of adaptation measures._”
Stokes, C.R., Bamber, J.L., Dutton, A. et al. Warming of +1.5 °C is too high for polar ice sheets. Commun Earth Environ 6, 351 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02299-w.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Data #Paleoclimatology #Geography #Glaciology @geography @climatechange
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20 May 1569: Edmund Spenser, future #poet & planter in #Ireland matriculates at Pembroke College #Cambridge #otd
Norm!
George Wendt, best known for playing Norm Peterson on 'Cheers', has died at 76
💻 📚 **How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers**
“_Only five of the 15 titles on the list are real._”
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Fake #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon @ai @bookstodon
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AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn
https://futurism.com/ai-chatbots-hikers-danger?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Futurism @futurism-Futurism
**Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests**
“_Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it_”
🇯🇵 **Early modern Japan (1550–1850)**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/place/Japan/Early-modern-Japan-1550-1850.
🇺🇸 **El-Erian says the era of U.S. exceptionalism is on pause**
🔗 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/el-erian-says-the-era-of-u-s-exceptionalism-is-on-pause-4b3d9638
#Economics #Economy #USA #US #UnitedStates #Exceptionalism @economics
💻 **I'm a college writing professor. Here's what AI still can't do**
🔗 https://mashable.com/article/how-a-college-writing-professor-teaches-students-about-ai
🇩🇰 **The Hoby cups: Tracing connections in Iron Age Denmark**
“_What can a pair of silver cups deposited as grave goods in Denmark reveal about links with the Roman world?_”
🔗 https://the-past.com/feature/the-hoby-cups-tracing-connections-in-iron-age-denmark/.
#History #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #IronAge #Denmark #Romans @histodons @archaeodons
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Seems like the logical conclusion of this "generative AI" exercise.
"“My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website.
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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