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Flying across the country with my four year old to show work at the MeaningfulXR conference at UC Davis. She's a pretty good travel buddy!
I picked up a Boox e-ink tablet device for school. I hope to help reduce eye strain and migraines.
So far, I’m rebuilding how I study and read course materials. Using the tablet has cut my screen time on other devices by about 50%.
Yes, typing and navigating on e-ink is slower, but that’s part of the trade off. I’m actually starting to enjoy it. With my hyperactive ADHD, I go 100000% the speed of light sometimes and I need to learn to slow down my processes. This might be one way to help with that while also protecting my eyes and reducing migraine triggers. So, yay! 
**From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing**
“By the way, this is why I keep insisting that the revival of #humanism and the #humanities won’t come from the #universities. The real rebirth will happen in #society at large, spurred by #individuals - not #academics.” open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
The New Romanticism Just Found...
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“They’re running the place like a #startup, rather than like a public entity governed by federal law.”
This is a sad day for Aus education. #Universities are for #learning, #teaching and #research. To understanding and present stuff at its most fundamental level to exquisite detail. 
Startups are a lot of times at best, #prototype #engineering. Making something that might work, with a fickle market, timed with a stop watch of cash.
The fit for #academics, who are mostly careful, methodical, precise simply get in the way of scrappy, hard charging back yard hacks. It’s laughable. 
#ANU / #education / #Australia <https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education/2025/05/10/exclusive-the-consultancy-driving-anu-cuts>
The Saturday Paper · Exclusive: The consultancy driving ANU cuts
**Narcissism and Affective Polarization**
“_We argue that the personality trait of narcissism (entitled self-importance) is an important correlate of affective polarization. We test this claim in Britain using nationally representative survey data, examining both long-standing party identities and new Brexit identities. Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship._”
Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav 47, 599–618 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09963-5.
SpringerLinkNarcissism and Affective Polarization - Political BehaviorThere are increasing concerns about affective polarization between political groups in the US and elsewhere. While most work explaining affective polarization focuses on a combination of social and ideological sorting, we ask whether people’s personalities are associated with friendliness to their political in-group and hostility to their political out-group. We argue that the personality trait of narcissism (entitled self-importance) is an important correlate of affective polarization. We test this claim in Britain using nationally representative survey data, examining both long-standing party identities and new Brexit identities. Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship. This potentially not only explains why some people are more susceptible to affective polarization, but also has implications for elite polarization given that narcissism is an important predictor of elite entry.
**From Land's End to the Levant: did Britain's tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?**
“_Results from the shipwrecks near Israel strongly suggest that the ‘bronzization’ of the East Mediterranean, occurring 1500–1300 BC, was primarily driven by European tin sources, particularly from south-west Britain, rather than Central Asian sources. Tin ore finds from settlements across Cornwall and Devon suggest a decentralised production model in prehistory, with agriculture still dominant alongside numerous small alluvial tin workings._”
Williams, R.A. et al. (2025) ‘From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean?’, Antiquity, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.41.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Trade #Europe #Mediterranean #Britain #Levant #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
**How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond**
"_This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats._"
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111705446.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Ancient #History #Histodons #PoliticalScience #Authoritarianism #Romans #Empire #RomanEmpire #Imperialism #Academia #Academics @politicalscience @histodons
De Gruyter BrillHow Republics DieAuthoritarianism is everywhere on the advance; democracies seem fragile and threatened. We console ourselves that where rule by the people has long established itself, it has never collapsed from internal causes. Except it did, once: in Rome. This book gathers together Roman historians with political scientists and scholars of other periods of authoritarian takeover to explore how open and democratic political systems have historically fallen prey to autocrats. The Late Roman Republic is the main focus, with a mix of large-scale thematic and analytical chapters paired with more detailed case studies, from some of the leading scholars in the field. Other chapters widen the scope, analysing comparable cases from ancient Athens to Napoleon to Hitler’s Germany and Franco’s Spain. The book as a whole draws on contemporary political science scholarship on democratic decay and competitive authoritarianism. It shows that these concepts are not only applicable to modern states, but that we can properly use them to study past democratic collapses as well. This provides the tools for a more historically-informed understanding of how republics die, as part of a renewed conversation between historians and political scientists.
There once was a plan so grand,
To bring talent from the American land,
France and the EU,
Offered incentives anew,
Calling scientists to Europe firsthand.
The Guardian · France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe
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Finally, he sought a list of additional #unredacted agency records—including all GEC #grants & #contracts, as well as subgrants, which are particularly sensitive due to risks of #retaliation to subgrantees, who often work in local #journalism, #FactChecking, or pro-#democracy orgs under repressive regimes. It also asked for “all documents mentioning” the #ElectionIntegrity Partnership, a #research collaboration between #academics & #tech that has been a target of the #RightWing.
**A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode**
“_....the hyper-Catalan numbers 𝐶𝐦 count the number of subdivisions of a polygon into a given number of triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, etc. (its type 𝐦), and we show that their generating series solves a polynomial equation of a particular geometric form. This solution is straightforwardly extended to solve the general univariate polynomial equation._”
Wildberger, N. J. and Rubine, D. (2025) ‘A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode’, The American Mathematical Monthly, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2025.2460966.
**Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions**
“_The results indicate that the fertility rate should exceed 2.7 to avoid extinction. The extinction threshold is reduced by a female-biased sex ratio. We argue that the present results explain the observed phenomena of female-biased births under severe conditions as an effective way to avoid extinction._”
Cuaresma DCN, Ito H, Arima H, Yoshimura J, Morita S, et al. (2025) Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0322174. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322174.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Fertility #Extinction #Population #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @anthropology
journals.plos.orgThreshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditionsThe developed countries now face a low fertility crisis. The replacement level fertility (RLF) is conventionally considered to be 2.1 children per woman, in which demographic stochasticity arising from random variations in individual offspring numbers is ignored. However, the importance of demographic stochasticity casts doubts on the adequacy of the replacement level fertility of 2.1, especially in a small population. Here, we investigate the extinction threshold for the fertility rate of a sexually reproducing population caused by demographic stochasticity. The results indicate that the fertility rate should exceed 2.7 to avoid extinction. The extinction threshold is reduced by a female-biased sex ratio. We argue that the present results explain the observed phenomena of female-biased births under severe conditions as an effective way to avoid extinction. Furthermore, since fertility rates are below this threshold in developed countries, family lineages of almost all individuals are destined to go extinct eventually.
Weird question to #academia: I have an incoming PhD student who was told (for visa reasons) that they need a “Research for Presentation” letter. Anyone have any experience with this? Our departmental graduate director, and international student services, are unfamiliar. I am mostly concerned about not producing problems for the visa process, but I’d love for this to be actually _helpful_ also. #faculty #phd #academics
https://youtube.com/shorts/craJNfT5wJw?si=p9FfG2v5OIzdIXm6 #europe #canada #australia #uk recruit #academics in #science due to #braindrain in #usa from #trump anti-science policies - other countries win at USA's expense - yeah!!
In Norway, a scheme has unfurled,
To entice top researchers from the world,
They aim to lure,
With incentives grand and pure,
Into their academic whirl.
#GuardianLimerick #Academics #Norway #Europe #Education #Universities
The Guardian · Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities
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Question for the academic bubble on the fediverse: I'm thinking about finishing my PhD (or rather starting a new one). I'd love to combine the topics tech-philosophy and literature. Any idea on how to find a paid position? I'm currently living in Vienna Austria. A remote position abroad would definitely be an option.
RT welcome.
The Government Is Now Threatening Academic Journals
Futurism · The Government Is Now Threatening Academic Journals
Sice this actually worked really well last time, I have another question for STEM #academics: my PhD was a little funny in that my de jure advisor was different from the person whose experiment I was working on. Is it better to get a letter of reference from my higher-ranked advisor or the person I worked more closely with (and got along with better)?