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"This Element examines some of their concerns. It uses evidence that critics of peer review sometimes cite to show its failures, as well as empirical literature on the reception of bullshit, to advance positive claims about how the assessment of scholarly work is appropriately influenced by features of the context in which it appears: for example, by readers' knowledge of authorship or of publication venue."

Levy N. Philosophy, Bullshit, and Peer Review. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009256315 #OpenAccess #OA #Philosophy #Epistemology #PeerReview #Research #Academia #Academic @philosophy

"The authors introduce the two main theoretical approaches in SM, Boltzmannian SM and Gibbsian SM, and discuss how they conceptualise equilibrium and explain the approach to it. In doing so, the authors examine how probabilities are introduced into the theories, how they deal with irreversibility, how they understand the relation between the micro and the macro level, and how the two approaches relate to each other."

Frigg R, Werndl C. Foundations of Statistical Mechanics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2024. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009022798 #OpenAcess #OA #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #Science #Physics #Probability #Boltzmann #Gibbs #Academia #Academic @philosophy @philosophyofscience @physics

"Our project is revealing a new perspective on how these sites, contrary to previous assumptions, seem to have played a significant role in the configuration and evolution of trading networks throughout the Roman period."

Quevedo A, Hernández García Jde D, Gutiérrez-Rodríguez M, Moreno-Martín FJ, Mukai T, Capelli C. Impact of trading networks on a small island at the end of Late Antiquity: Isla del Fraile. Antiquity. 2023:1-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.182 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Journal #Article #Archaeologyy #Anthropology #Archaeodons #Antiquity #Antiquidons #Roman #Trade #History #Spain #Europe @archaeodons @antiquidons

"The findings gave a unique understanding of life and death in this early Christian Viking community and indicated that it was common to suffer from dental caries, tooth loss, infections of dental origin and tooth pain. These Vikings also manipulated their teeth through filing, tooth picking and other occupational behaviors."

Bertilsson C, Vretemark M, Lund H, Lingström P (2023) Caries prevalence and other dental pathological conditions in Vikings from Varnhem, Sweden. PLOS ONE 18(12): e0295282. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295282 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Sweden #Vikings #Europe #Academia #Academic @archaeodons @science

"A team of astronomers has used asteroseismology, or the study of stellar oscillations, to accurately measure the distance of stars from the Earth. Their research examined thousands of stars and checked the measurements taken during the Gaia mission to study the near Universe." https://actu.epfl.ch/news/scientists-measure-the-distance-to-stars-by-their-/ #Science #STEM #Astronomy #Space #Universe #Research #Cosmology #Astrophysics

"This article outlines a chronology for understanding the cultural importance in Britain of this voyage, from the New England chroniclers to the postcolonial critiques of historians today. In between, it offers a thematic analysis of the different groups which could use the story in their construction of morality and identity, from Romanticists and abolitionists to Anglo-American diplomats and civic boosters."

Edmund Downey, Tom Hulme, Martha Vandrei, The Mayflower and Historical Culture in Britain, 1620–2020, The English Historical Review, 2023;, cead152, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead152 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #Culture @histodon @histodons

"In his Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Wittgenstein claims, puzzlingly, that ‘the proof creates a new concept’ (RFM III-41). This paper aims to contribute to clarifying this idea, and to showing how it marks a major break with the traditional conception of proof."

Sorin Bangu, Wittgenstein on Proof and Concept-Formation, The Philosophical Quarterly, 2023;, pqad111, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqad111 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Wittgenstein #Maths #Math #Mathematics #Philosophy #Academia #Academic @philosophy

"The authors present new archaeological discoveries from western and northern Mongolia, dating to the fourth and fifth centuries AD, including a wooden frame saddle with horse hide components from Urd Ulaan Uneet and an iron stirrup from Khukh Nuur. Together, these finds suggest that Mongolian groups were early adopters of stirrups and saddles, facilitating the expansion of nomadic hegemony across Eurasia and shaping the conduct of medieval mounted warfare."

Bayarsaikhan J, Turbat T, Bayandelger C, et al. The origins of saddles and riding technology in East Asia: discoveries from the Mongolian Altai. Antiquity. 2023:1-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.172 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Mongolia #Eurasia #Medieval #Horses #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic @archaeodons @histodon @histodons

"To address questions about the real appearance of St Anthony, we applied body mass estimation equations to the osteometric measurements taken in 1981, during the public recognition of the Saint’s skeletal remains. Both the biomechanical and the morphometric approach were employed to solve some intrinsic limitations in the equations for body mass estimation from skeletal remains. The estimated body mass was used to assess the physique of the Saint with the body mass index."

Mongillo J, Vescovo G, Bramanti B (2021) Belly fat or bloating? New insights into the physical appearance of St Anthony of Padua. PLOS ONE 16(12): e0260505. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260505 #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Academia #Academic @science

Gold-Mining Counties: Bartholomew, J. G. https://archive.org/details/dr_gold-mining-counties-6920146 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #Atlas #Statistics #Gold #Mining #C20th #20thCentury

#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

🇺🇸 Map of the United States of America, 1880. : Howland, H.G. https://archive.org/details/dr_map-of-the-united-states-of-america-1880-2709033 via @internetarchive #Map #Maps #Cartography #Mapstodon #US #USA #UnitedStates #America #C19th #19thCentury

#Image credit: David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries.

"Medieval hospitals were founded to provide charity, but poverty and infirmity were broad and socially determined categories and little is known about the residents of these institutions and the pathways that led them there. Combining skeletal, isotopic and genetic data, the authors weave a collective biography of individuals buried at the Hospital of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge."

Inskip S, Cessford C, Dittmar J, et al. Pathways to the medieval hospital: collective osteobiographies of poverty and charity. Antiquity. 2023;97(396):1581-1597. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.167 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #England #Cambridge #Medieval #Hospitals #Osteology #Charity #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Science #Academia #Academic @archaeodons @science